Ben V

Views are my own.

[Ben V @benveldman]

@Graff2023 Let’s build a highway there instead

[Ben V @benveldman]

@MatthewParrott @tarmakademia “Sudden-onset-heterosexuality”. Thank you for this new term. I will use it widely during Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Mick Jagger says he’s been a Zara Larsson fan since “Ruin My Life”:

“My son said, ‘Zara Larsson’s having a comeback.’ I said, ‘But she never went away for me.’ I said, ‘I liked her since ‘Ruin My Life,’ you know?’ He said, ‘Why are you-’ I said, ‘It’s like, just what I like. When I’m in that mood, that’s what I like.’”

[Netflix @netflix]

good morning to @zaralarsson

[eli @elistagegirl]

imagine a desperate girl from MA who blew her savings to fly to LA, break into Sony records and beg for radio play!! With a sequin fedora on her head and a cuff around her ankle — she’s dragged out the building but singing “my name is Eli and I’m about to change your life” 🎤🎧👩‍🎤

[Ben V @benveldman]

@aritention I’m sorry you have no taste

[💗 @ma1ybe]

anyone who makes you sad on your birthday hates you

[Ben V @benveldman]

@JonFraserTF Pride Toronto was founded in response to the discriminatory mass arrests of gay men at a Toronto bathhouse in 1981. Pride is and always has been a radical act, and it exists to support every person within the LGBT+ community.

[Ben V @benveldman]

Let @CHogarthPC’s loss be a lesson that campaigning against bike lanes in the GTA is a losing strategy.

[Justin Trudeau @JustinTrudeau]

You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game.

[Observing The City @observinthecity]

Hey, I can make sweeping generalizations from a picture too! What kind of a city prioritizes cars over people to the point where residents are forced to walk in the middle of the street because it’s the only place where snow is cleared.

[Ben V @benveldman]

@ILbrandonite_ It’s giving Handmaid’s Tale

[Ben V @benveldman]

@fordnation You should apply when @BonnieCrombie becomes Premier after the election!

[Bonnie HQ @BonnieHQ]

This election, Ontario has a choice: A family doctor for everyone, or a tunnel.

[Brianna Wu @BriannaWu]

I wish I had the words to make people care about trans people or even just have compassion.

Imagine how desperate you'd have to be to become something so many people openly hate.

I didn't ask to be born this way. I would not wish the trauma of a trans childhood on my worst enemy.

My family disowned me for transitioning. Ever 20 years later, I feel like I've lost a limb - phantom pain that never goes away. But even through homelessness, constant abuse from strangers and even having my human rights dismantled by my own government in the last two weeks- I've never doubted I made the right choice.

[Bonnie Crombie 🇨🇦 @BonnieCrombie]

In Doug Ford’s Ontario, Doug always comes first, and the people of Ontario always come last.

[Ben V @benveldman]

I never want to see Canada sending any type of assistance to the US following a natural disaster again. Forest fires? Deal with putting them out on your own. Downed power lines after a hurricane? Find your own utility crews to repair them. If the US wants to go it alone, so be it

[Commentary Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social @TrumpDailyPosts]

We pay hundreds of Billions of Dollars to SUBSIDIZE Canada. Why? There is no reason. We don’t need anything they have. We have unlimited Energy, should make our own Cars, and have more Lumber than we can ever use. Without this massive subsidy, Canada ceases to exist as a viable Country. Harsh but true! Therefore, Canada should become our Cherished 51st State. Much lower taxes, and far better military protection for the people of Canada — AND NO TARIFFS!

Donald Trump Truth Social Post 08:26 AM EST 02/02/25

[Ben V @benveldman]

@DavidPiccini @fordnation Who will protect US from his wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars?

[Ben V @benveldman]

@PierrePoilievre We've all tuned you out. No one wants you at the table negotiating for Canada after you've spent years defaming our great country. We need a serious leader, not someone who's only talent is living off the public purse and repeating gimmicky slogans.

[Ben V @benveldman]

It's time for Canada to nation build so the world takes us seriously. A good place to start: investing in our military, building monuments across the country and in our capital commemorating our shared history, and building a residence befitting the Prime Minister of a G7 nation.